UH football coaches highlight luncheon
University of Hawaii assistant football coaches Daronte’ Jones and Chris Demarest are the keynote speakers for Tuesday’s Downtown Athletic Club Hawaii lunch-time meeting .
The event is at the Hukilau restaurant in downtown Honolulu. Jones spent last season with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League as a secondary coach, while Demarest most recently served as special teams and secondary coach at East Stroudsberg University in Pennsylvania.
The event is open to the public, with doors opening at 11:30 a.m. and the program slated for a noon start time.
A buffet lunch will be served for $20. To RSVP, call the Hukilau at 523-3460.
Geoghegan, Summerer win XTERRA
Mark Geoghegan and Marion Summerer were the top male and female finishers in the XTERRA Mountainman Triathlon on Sunday at Kualoa Ranch.
Geoghegan, who is an engineer from Sydney and has lived in Honolulu since 2001, won the event for the third year in a row, finishing with a time of 1 hour, 39 minutes, 51 seconds.
Jimmie Davis took second in 1:41:34 in the triathlon, which was a 750-meter swim, a 20-kilometer bike ride and a 6K trail run.
Summerer won the women’s race in 1:52:23, more than 2 minutes ahead of defending champion Laurel Dudley.
Kamehameha’s Hardin on IR
The Bears placed rookie safety Brandon Hardin on injured reserve and also put wide receiver Johnny Knox on the physically unable to perform list on Sunday.
Hardin, the Kamehameha alum who was the Bears’ third-round draft pick, injured his neck against Washington on Aug. 18.
“After you have a collision like that and you lay on the turf, him playing is not the first thing on your mind,” coach Lovie Smith said. “We’re glad he’ll be OK, but these things happen.
“A rookie … lots of players have to go on IR their first year and normally learn a lot from that year of being out of football.”
Hardin was taken off the field on a cart after he lay motionless for almost 10 minutes following a tackle on Logan Paulsen to end a 19-yard pass play. He went to the hospital, was released the next day and was back at Halas Hall last week wearing a neck brace.
For Hardin, it will be two straight missed seasons. The former Oregon State cornerback missed his senior season of college because of a shoulder injury.
Knox (back) will miss at least the first six weeks of the regular season.
